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The Best Carry On Luggage
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 20:30
With 28% of the popular vote , the Travelpro FlightCrew4 22" Rollaboard made it through your security checkpoints to be crowned the Best Carry On Luggage.
Apple approves first 4K iPhone video app: $999 and it's yours
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 04:23
Yes, that isn't a typo. It's actually $999.99, which practically makes it $1,000. Granted, the app's purpose is quite noble and the results it gives might very well justify the costs. i4software's Vizzywig 4K lets you pr...
The Leggage laptop case is a must-have for frequent flyers
Coolest Gadgets - 15 Sep 2014 21:30
If you’ve ever had to do a lot of traveling by plane, you know how hard it can be on your body. You’re confined to a small, uncomfortable seat sitting in a germ box thousands of feet above the ground. In some cases, ...
Mercedes bringing hybrid tech to luxury S550 in 2015
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 23:59
Mercedes is pairing brains with brawn, as they introduce their first luxury hybrid car, the S550 plug-in. Marrying their penchant for luxury cars and hybrid technology sounds simple enough, but in true Mercedes fashion, ...
Watch and Squirm As This Robot Tentacle Snakes Through a Fake Pipe
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 19:28
It must be 'let's creep out the populous' month over at MIT because in addition to revealing the school's untethered robot cheetah today, there's another video showing the latest progress on its development of a highly a...
Google wants to test-fly drones in New Mexico
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 23:13
There are a lot of Google-owned entities, with some overlapping in a big way. One of those situations involves Project Loon, born of Google X, and Titan Aerospace, which Google purchased earlier this year. The two will t...
How to get the new U2 album 'Songs of Innocence' out of your iTunes
Engadget - 15 Sep 2014 23:20
Apple capped its iPhone 6 & Apple Watch launch event last week by announcing it would give away copies of a brand-new U2 album to all iTunes users -- but some people aren't happy about it. In apparently shocking news to ...
MIT Made a Smartphone Control a Computer With a Simple Touch
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 22:33
Have you ever held your smartphone up to your laptop screen and thought about how cool it would be if the two devices could work together, physically? Well now, thanks to a team from the MIT Media Lab, they can. New soft...
Moto X (2014) Review: Finally, a true Motorola flagship
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 20:04
Motorola never quite got the praise it deserved with the original Moto X, the company's decision to step off the specs bandwagon unduly masked by relatively uninspiring design. Now, the 2014 model arrives to rectify that...
This YouTube Mashup Confirms That Music Is Better When Played Together
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 01:00
Musician and YouTuber Kutiman is a mashup master of sorts . However, he doesn't deal with the common music fodder that most Frankenstein-type musicians use. Instead of stitching together popular verses and choruses from ...
Etsy bans sale of questionable Washington Redskins merch
Engadget - 15 Sep 2014 00:23
The debate over the appropriateness of the Washington Redskins' name has been raging for what seems like ages now, and even homegrown e-commerce operations are feeling the effects. Consider Etsy, for instance. The fast-g...
The Big Picture: Scientists pick a landing site for their historic comet probe
Engadget - 15 Sep 2014 23:56
You're not just looking at an unassuming piece of rock -- if anything, it's a piece of history. That's Site J, the European Space Agency's long-awaited choice of landing spot for Philae, the first probe built to reach a ...
Gawker Kanye Responds to Wheelchair Incident: "I'm a Married, Christian Man" | Jalopnik Your Guide T
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 23:46
Gawker Kanye Responds to Wheelchair Incident: "I'm a Married, Christian Man" | Jalopnik Your Guide To The Explosive Airbag Recall That Affects 14 Million Cars | Jezebel What Former Sluts Tell Their Daughters About Sex | ...
Scientists Used a Hitchcock Thriller to Measure Patients' Consciousness
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 23:20
Alfred Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating his audience--a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner...
These Richly Detailed Maps Give the Modern World a Victorian Twist
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 23:00
Wouldn't we all love to live in a city where floating dirigibles shared the horizon alongside the glass towers of our modern skylines? Such is the wild world featured in the highly complex, geographically accurate illust...
A Brief History of Air Bags and The Future of Driverless Cars
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 22:59
"We've lost more Americans on the highways than we've lost in all the wars that we've ever fought," says Jim Hall, the former head of the National Transportation Safety Board in a new video from the New York Times.
Your iPhone Houses All These Chemical Reactions Every Single Day
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 22:48
Other than the times we notice our battery bars inching towards the red or our screens go silent, we usually don't think too about how it is our phones actually function. But as a new video from the Reaction YouTube chan...
Over 3 million comments on net neutrality registered with the FCC
Engadget - 15 Sep 2014 22:44
It looks like a lot more of you have strong opinions on net neutrality than initially thought. The FCC has just announced that it's received more than 3 million comments on the topic, which blows away the previous estima...
Nexus 9 keyboard folio possibly outed in China
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 22:33The Loud, Messy, XTREME Graphic Design of the 90s
Gizmodo - 15 Sep 2014 22:16
Today we learned that popular 1990s soda/xtreme sports pump-up drink Surge is back: Amazon will now deliver a 12-pack to your house for $14. If you hadn't thought about Surge since the late 1990s, it was probably a trip ...
Kickstarter is now accepting projects from Ireland and Scandinavia
Engadget - 15 Sep 2014 22:04
Folks looking for crowdfunding in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland just got a lucky break: Kickstarter is expanding its international reach. Starting today, creators in Ireland and Scandinavia will be able to submit p...
Microsoft to "break even" with Minecraft in 1 year
Slash Gear - 15 Sep 2014 22:02
Let not a single person speak badly of the people at Microsoft who signed the deal to acquire Mojang this year. Though they've agreed to pay $2.5 billion dollars for the developer group and the game Minecraft, they "expe...